Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — The Shep Council [ARTICLE]

The Shep Council

Mr. James C. Bayles, the editor of the Iron Age, has suggested in a pamphlet the institution of “shop councils,” in which the employer and employe are to be equally represented—the decisions not to be binding on either party unless approved byboth, and all functions to be purely conciliatory. As a means of eleminating something of the element of secrecy from the relations of the two parties, of keeping petty matters out of secret discussion and decision, it seems all that can be desired. It is the antipode of compulsory arbitration; and it avoids that suspicion which often attaches to voluntary arbitration. It is rather symptomatic than remedial, just as a general disuse of the pistol pocket would be an excellent accessory to a law against street combats. It is a modest proposition; but, even in the din of high-sounding schemes and associations, is it too much to hope for a fair trial of it somewhere?— The Century. Scandinavia was the earliest home of the Goths.